Nicholas of Cusa

/ ˈkjuːzə /

noun

1. 1401–64, German cardinal, philosopher, and mathematician: anticipated Copernicus in asserting that the earth revolves around the sun

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Nicholas of Cusa and Nicolaus Copernicus cracked open the nutshell universe of Aristotle and Ptolemy.

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Nicholas of Cusa was bold enough to say that God must have done so.

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An idea embraced by Bishop Étienne Tempier in the thirteenth century and Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa in the fifteenth century could mean a death sentence in the sixteenth century.

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In the 1580s, Bruno, a former Dominican cleric, published On the Infinite Universe and Worlds, where he suggested, like Nicholas of Cusa, that the earth was not the center of the universe and that there were infinite worlds like our own.

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Nicholas of Cusa had turned the earth into a true star, but only at the price of turning the sun into an earth—hardly anyone was prepared to follow him.

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